From a Wall Street Journal story by Ellen Gamerman headlined “How ‘Bridgerton’ Author Julia Quinn Works Through Sex Scenes and Writer’s Malaise”:

All sex is bad sex if it doesn’t further the plot.

At least that’s how romance writer Julia Quinn sees the role of the steamy scenes in her “Bridgerton” novels. That’s why her characters are such chatterboxes in the bedroom.

“You need it so that if you pulled out the scene, the story wouldn’t make sense,” she said.